"Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick (published 1968)
Review edited and updated from yesterday, 12/04/18, today: 12/05/18 "Everything is true,' he said. 'Everything anybody has ever thought." - Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? Ridley Scott's Blade Runner (1982) as well as Denis Villeneuve's Blade Runner 2049 (2017) both prove to be excellent films to be watched in conjunction with reading Philip K. Dick's science fiction novel, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?, published first in 1968. The films are extremely futuristic, visually, both films taking a cyberpunk-ish/noir aspect of the story which is not easy to grasp in the novel. Dick's novel, in contrast, feels a little dated. The described technology and world is not as digitalized; the book seems more grainy, more blurred, still with remnants of the 1950s (think of the word used for the self-replicating trash/junk: "kipple"). This factors in to why watching the movies would be helpful if one would like to understand the book. Th...